Health Care Assistant - Trevor Howell Ward | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	04 Medi 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	04 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Tooting, SW17 0QT
Cwmni:	st georges nhs trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7420161/200-7420161-GO-LP

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Healthcare Assistant – Band 2 or Band 3 (dependent on experience and completion of the Care Certificate)
• We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed individual to join our dynamic team on Gordon Smith Ward.
• The environment offers opportunities to expand your experience if you looking to pursue a career in Nursing or other avenues within the Trust. It will also provide you with vital skills in your journey of a Health Care support worker.
• You will need to provide the highest standard of individualised and holistic patient care in conjunction with working with the other multidisciplinary team, to provide high quality nursing care to patients and their families, in accordance with agreed policies.
• Working under the supervision of the qualified nursing staff, the healthcare assistant will participate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary team in delivering high quality patient care.
• To assist with nursing care as instructed by the nursing staff, including bathing, bed making, assisting with eating and drinking and helping with meals as necessary.
• To have responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and others, and to comply at all times with the requirements of the Health & Safety regulations.
• To ensure that no person receives less favourable treatment than another does on the grounds of sex, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour, nationality, ethnic or national or sexual orientation.

You will support our trained nurses in delivering high quality care. Duties include:
• Feeding patients and supporting nutrition
• Washing and repositioning patients
• Completing observations e.g. pulse, blood pressure and temperature.
• Completing ECG or bladder scanning (with additional training)
• Venepuncture and cannulation
• Supporting patients with toileting
• Basic wound care
• Emotional support for patients
• End of life care
• Providing enhanced care to patients, e.g. those with dementia
• Infection control measures e.g. cleaning equipment and changing bedding.

You should possess good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

A kind, caring, compassionate and professional attitude is essential along with being able to work in a busy environment.

You will be required to be fully flexible and willing to work night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences,
which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.


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